Google Map Tour Guide Central

Inspired by Marlin and Ludwig's local tour guides for Los Angeles and London, we've created this ongoing feature for Archinect members to create their own customized Google Map. It's an opportunity to share all your local favorites with the rest of the community. Perhaps you have some off-the-beaten track suggestions that you wouldn't normally find in tour guides, or perhaps your interests lie primarily in certain types of architecture or culture. Here's your opportunity to show us!

The following maps are ordered by date of submission(latest at the bottom):

LOS ANGELESTour Guide - Marlin WatsonThe bare essentials for an "I only have one day in LA" tour of LA architecture: Red markers indicate buildings that can be seen well from the road while driving, and the yellow markers indicate building stops along the route. The tour includes: A skyscraper turned on its side, a house with sleeping baskets that introduced Southern California to Modernism, a modern day Acropolis above an Angelino hilltop, a modern day ruin in an Angelino hillside, and a restaurant designed by a broken clock. Enjoy, it's an all day affair.

LONDONTour Guide - Ludwig AbacheAbout two months ago I made a collection of placemaps in a goggle map of London for a friend of mine who was coming here and I didnt have the time to take around for a tour.A similar situation to Marlin. His map is brilliant working in a linear way. The one I did is more like a bunch of places on a map with no relation but I think that I could organise it pretty quickly.

NEW YORKTour Guide - larslarson i created this one for new york...although currently it is bar-centric..the intent was to document my favorite places in new york and hope to get others to add to it in the future.

NEW YORKTour Guide - jasonerRestaurants that let you BYO. Only the ones that I've confirmed.

PARISTour Guide - Heather RingPARIS Map of Landscape ArchitectureAKA: Martha Schwartz Partners "Office Holiday" Itinerary +The "Office Holiday" seems to be something of a tradition among UK firms, so lucky us! Martha took us on a weekend tour of Paris landscape architecture. It felt like school-fieldtrips all over again."Every architect should see Parc Sceaux to truly understand scale," she said. (It's the park that early-on most influenced her work.) You can definitely see the French formalist influences!

MINNEAPOLISTour Guide - aquapuraAll places that I frequent in one way or another. Will try to keep adding places and details.

CHICAGOTour Guide - lletdownljust started this afternoon. Its very thin but i plan to keep working on it, including more images and more interesting tidbits/insight from a college student and recent grads perspective.

CINCINNATITour Guide - WonderKEven though I have recently departed the Queen City, I nominated myself to do this one because, well, I am obsessed with maps and this was a task I could not resist. Highlights include architectural sights, good food and neighborhoods worth venturing into. As with everyone else, this map will continue to evolve, so stay tuned....

LOS ANGELES (RUDOLPH SCHINDLER)W/ VideoTour Guide - MarlinThis one-afternoon tour begins in Hollywood and visits five houses by Architect Rudolph Schindler, and one conspicuous house by Frank Lloyd Wright later remodeled by Schindler. Note the blue info markers, which include a four-chapter video narrative of the journey. Enjoy.

WASHINGTON DCTour Guide - DCAFor this exercise, I will nominate myself embassador for DC. So far this map contains art museums and embassies. I will endeavor to add more places of interest for architectural designers.

BOSTONTour guide - larslarsonThe beginnings of a boston map...architecture-centric at the moment. A map that could help us avoid any more 'what's there to see in boston' threads...and a couple places to eat and drink as well.

LOS ANGELES'S SAN FERNANDO VALLEYTour Guide - Marlin WatsonSurprisingly enough, this often overlooked area of the eastern San Fernando Valley, "The Valley", can tell a story of Los Angeles architecture in the last century. Adobe, Schindler, Jerde and Venturi, Decon and Gehry, Stern and Rossi. Additionally, it's a good excuse for ditching the spouse and kids at Universal Studios for the afternoon.

ADOLF LOOS in VIENNATour Guide - Ludwig Abache1910's modenist architecture. Mostly private houses but some public builings as well like the Kärtner-Bar. I will try to update it with buildings by other architects from the same period.

NEW YORKTour Guide - amla very basic architourism map, just started it yesterday. my students keep asking me for architecture tips when they are traveling to nyc, so this is easier. most of the stuff is sort of recent.

TOKYO, JAPANTour Guide - Ludwig Abache Aoyama and Harakuju: This is the google map version of "ICON's Magazine Architectural Trail" of these two areas of Tokyo from 2006. This map guides you to some of the building highlights within "one of the greatest concentrations of outstanding architecture anywhere in the world".

BELO HORIZONTE, BRASILTour Guide - Ludwig Abache The capital of Minas Gerais state, Belo Horizonte is a city of 2.4 million inhabitants and the third largest city in Brasil. It is also the second city with most Oscar Niemeyer buildings in the world so this map could also be named Oscar Niemeye tour. His most beautiful buildings are located in the northern suburb named Pampulha.Also note the diamond shape grid on the downtown. Belo Horizonte is the the first planned city of Brazil inaugurated in 1897.

WASHINGTON, DCTour Guide - scottaway Map of all the stuff I would list if an architecturally-inclined person asked me what to see and do in DC. Included are interesting neighborhoods, buildings, places to eat, places to drink, and places to be merry. Not included are the impossible-to-miss attractions like the Smithsonian museums, the White House, the Capitol, and whatnot. It's a work in progress.

ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIATour Guide - nomadologistMapping my pedestrian architectural-urban explorations of the informal peri-urban west of Ulaanbaatar, at its most austere, weird and labyrinthine.A work in progress, collaborators invited. See also.

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Aoyama and Harajuku: This is the google map version of "ICON's Magazine Architectural Trail" of these two areas of Tokyo from 2006. This map guides you to some of the building highlights within "one of the greatest concentrations of outstanding architecture anywhere in the world".

The capital of Minas Gerais state, Belo Horizonte is a city of 2.4 million inhabitants and the third largest city in Brasil. It is also the second city with most Oscar Niemeyer buildings in the world so this map could also be named Oscar Niemeye tour. His most beautiful buildings are located in the northern suburb named Pampulha.
Also note the diamond shape grid on the downtown. Belo Horizonte is the the first planned city of Brazil inaugurated in 1897.

Map of all the stuff I would list if an architecturally-inclined person asked me what to see and do in DC. Included are interesting neighborhoods, buildings, places to eat, places to drink, and places to be merry. Not included are the impossible-to-miss attractions like the Smithsonian museums, the White House, the Capitol, and whatnot. It's a work in progress.